Best of birding, February 2024
This month I shook off the January funk a bit and got out a little more. This included finding an unexpected visitor in Boulder County, as well as one lifer.
Besides those outings, I was also in Taos for a few nights and so spent some very frosty mornings looking at the local birds. I was overjoyed to find Evening Grosbeak - a bird that requires some work in my experience in Colorado - to be fairly common, at least at the spots I birded. I also refound a White-throated Sparrow, and got to observe Ladder-backed Woodpecker, a woodpecker I don't get to spend enough time with. A somewhat funny thing to me was this was the first time I've listed two very common, synanthropic, non-native species we all know: European Starling and Eurasian Collared-Dove, in the state of New Mexico. I guarantee I've seen these birds in the state before, but just never cared to list them.
